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Kazaa Going to Court
msim writes "According to the The Sydney Morning Herald" Kazaa will be going to court after their appeal to the Federal Court was dismissed. The case will be going ahead on March 23rd"
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You can no longer download Kazaa, but the network seems fine. You can still download songs etc...
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Site already slashdotted, some other news about the same subject:
Here and here
PS: The second link is heavier and probably will go down soon.
"This has got to be kind of tough. So Kazaa has to defend themselves against two recording industry associations simultaneously?"
This is a risk when you piss off two recording trade groups simultaneously.
Sitting in my day care, the art is decopainted.
I think.
Could be wrong.
Kazaa fails to stall copyright case
March 4, 2004 - 6:05PM
Internet music company Kazaa has failed in its attempt to delay proceedings for alleged copyright breaches brought by the Australian record industry.
Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox dismissed an application by the world's largest file sharing network to delay proceedings against it until a similar case in the United States was finalised.
Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI), which is owned by Universal, Festival Mushroom Records, EMI Music, Sony Music, Warner Music Australia and BMG Australia, raided 12 premises on February 6 this year to collect evidence against Kazaa. MIPI general manager Michael Speck said the decision to allow proceedings to go ahead against Sharman Networks, Kazaa's owner in Australia, was a win for the record industry.
"This represents a massive victory for the copyright owners," he said outside the court.
"It's time for Kazaa to stop using delaying tactics and face the music."
The matter was adjourned until March 23.
Jay | http://oldos.org
Kazaa has not been close to the best p2p app, by any means in a long long long time. If you want a good p2p try out direct connect plus plus.
Read the stuff over at Magnatune...the average musician makes like $1500 a year or so on their record sales. The rest they make up in performances. Not to mention that music existed long before the RIAA got its strangle-hold on it, and will exist long after the RIAA is dead and buried.
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
you are both wrong.
-ashot
That's all good and fine if I sell ONE copy! But what if I want to distribute it to more than one person? Just like the carpenter who may want to build more than one bookshelf (and a hell of a bookshelf it is!). He certainly doesn't want someone making cheap knockoffs of his creations.
...as long as they don't sell it for profit. That's MY right!
Case in point: Been to Sonic in the past few years? Seen those big red inverted cones out front? My Technical Director in college is the only one in the world who ownes the right to those. He designed them for a set (that'd be for a play) and someone at Sonic Corporate decided they liked them so much, they wanted them at EVERY Sonic. He had to take two and a half years off so he could go around the country building those for all the branches. That's one carpenter who's making money hand over fist on his Congressionally granted right to own what he creates and share his creation with the rest of the world.
I'm sorry you liken Copyright to Slavery, but it seems to me that THAT is reducing an argument to FUD. Something you accused the very articulate user turnstyle of doing a while back. Please, let's leave straw man arguments out of this.
fs
p.s. To clarify, you're right. Once they buy it, it's theirs to do what they want
This has been discussed on /. before.
Here you go